Once the chicken is lit above Gainesville’s Main Street Market, the Christmas season begins.
“Where else do you see the lighting of the chicken?,” Kristen Howard, Main Street Gainesville manager, said of the lighting at the annual Jingle Mingle event. “Some people light a Christmas tree or the square, we light a giant chicken.”
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